Buildings
Vézelay Abbey
Avallon, Yonne
A Romanesque basilica on a hilltop above the Morvan countryside, once one of the great pilgrimage churches of Christendom and a starting point on the…
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Country facts
Natural features
Baume-les-Messieurs
Perrigny, Jura
A village and its old abbey at the bottom of a deep limestone valley, a 'reculée' typical of the Jura, closed off by cliffs over 200 metres high.
Walks and treks
Cascades du Hérisson
Saint-Laurent-en-Grandvaux, Jura
A series of 31 waterfalls on the Hérisson river in the Jura mountains, among them the Éventail, which fans out over 65 metres of rock, and the Grand …
Historic sites
Cluny Abbey
Cluny, Saône-et-Loire
The remains of the greatest abbey of the Middle Ages, founded in 910, whose church was the largest in Christendom until St Peter's in Rome was built.
Historic sites
Hospices de Beaune (Hôtel-Dieu)
Beaune, Côte-d'Or
A charity hospital founded in 1443, with a dazzling roof of coloured glazed tiles in geometric patterns over its courtyard.
Walks and treks
Roche de Solutré
Prissé, Saône-et-Loire
A limestone crag rising like the prow of a ship above the vineyards of Pouilly-Fuissé in southern Burgundy.
Attractions
Besançon astronomical clock
Besançon, Doubs
An extraordinary clock built between 1858 and 1860, in the cathedral of Saint-Jean, with over 30,000 parts and 57 dials showing the time around the w…
Historic sites
Bibracte and Mont Beuvray
Étang-sur-Arroux, Saône-et-Loire
The great Celtic hilltop town of the Aedui tribe, on the wooded summit of Mont Beuvray in the Morvan, where Vercingetorix was chosen to lead the Gaul…
Historic sites
Château de Bussy-Rabutin
Venarey-les-Laumes, Côte-d'Or
A moated château in the Burgundy countryside where the witty courtier Roger de Bussy-Rabutin was exiled by Louis XIV after writing a scandalous book …